By Amy Xu In the late 1990s, 300,000 indigenous women underwent forced sterilization in Peru. Most of them only spoke Quechua, a native language of the Andes. Most of them came from poor rural communities and were forced into the surgery...

By Eleanor Runde A Jackson Institute Senior Fellow and counterterror expert discusses gender, media, national security. In your experience, how has the role of women changed in national security over the past twenty years? MM: One...

By Caroline Wray “Vietnamese single ladies are not only pretty and nicely slim, but their faithfulness to their husbands makes them even more attractive.” So promises Rosebrides.com’s “Vietnamese Brides” webpage, a website where...

BY ANNA RUSSO: The European nations have already declared their cooperation regarding currency, trade, and politics; now they are forming a union regarding an entirely new issue, the safety and status of women. The Istanbul Convention,...

BY ANNA RUSSO: In 2011, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, and Tawakkol Karman were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, three of only fifteen female recipients in the award’s history. The prize was given “for their non-violent...

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